St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-03
THE FARMERs' DEMANDS.
A Document From The State AIli-
ance of Interest to ALI the Legisla-


Copies of the resolutions adopted by the
executive committee of the State Farmers
alliance at Herman. recently, were circu
lated to some extent among the members of
the two houses yesterday. They represent
the ideas of the alliance on the principal
topics which will come before the present
session and 1t was with a good deal of in
terest that they were read by the members
elect yesterday. According to the eXecu-
tive committee the farmers wants at the
hands of the legislature are as follows:
TAXES.
The tax laws should be revised. We are in
favor of the Iowa system, which permits the
payment OF taxes in seni-annual installmentS.
The penalties for the nonpayment of taxes
ought not to be more than L per cent. per
month before or after sale. The time for re-
deeming property sold at tax sales ought TO
be extended to longer time than two years.
a tax receipt should be prirna facie evidence
that the tax has been paid. We cannot eX-
press our Indignation that a law could have
found its way into the statute books of the
state which would permit the action of dis
honest or careless official to deprive citizen
of his property. We have been more than
amazed to learn that majority of the judges
of our supreme court could find no reason for
pronouncng void statute so abhorrent to
Justice and so contrary TO the rinciples of
equity.
We demand that corporate property bear
its equal share of the public burdens. 1t
ought to be taxed as other property is taxed
and pay its just proportion of state, county,
municipal town and school taxes.
We ask the legislature to take measures tC
carry out in good faith the design OF conrre s
in granting large tracts OF land III aid or an
agricultural college. it would in our opinion
be Il wise and judicious measure to entirely
separate the agricultural college from the
state university and to establish an inStltu
tion where facilities for obtaining an educa
tion may be had second to none in the coun
try. bur OF which the study Of agriculture
should without exception form pant.
GRAIN LAW.
We are satisfied with the grain law as il
stands. We protest against licensing, bond
ing or any regulation whatever of the Coun
try elevators. Let there be no limit either tC
the number capacity; let everybody buy
SELL ship or deal in wheat as they do in Other
articles of trade: let the communication witt
Duluth from ali parts of the state be unob
structed; state weighing and state inspection
al that point with free access to it will remedy
all local evils. The right TO ship from sidt
tracks must not be restricted; this is the key
10 the whole situation; deny this and bond OF
license country elevators and the control o
the market falls into the hands Of profes
sionnl and skilled band Of wheat buyers anC
market manipulators, who, by the aid of raj!
way managers, can at one time flood the mar
kess by rushing the wheat stream forward
or at another time by holding it back lesser
the fiow of wheat and publish to the worlt
that the receipts of wheat are falling off.
The wheat ticket or the wheat receipt is no
the wheat; and the proposition TO bond or Ii
cense country warehouses and elevators
making the wheat ticket good in every mar
let of The state is "delusion and STARE.
If the identical wheat is 10 be retain I'd il
store where original, deposited the local ele
vators would soon be full ana tnere would o
M roon, to receive more. If the wheat is I
he shipped 10 other markets and sold o
ground into -four, then the receiver of tn
ticket is paying for storage when there is n